RSI MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE EXECUTIVE SEARCH & RECRUITING CENTER

For more than a decade, the Reaction Search Memphis Entertainment and Sports Executive Job Search Specialty Team has provided its Entertainment and Sports clients with superior Entertainment and Sports talent acquisitions by matching Top Entertainment and Sports Professionals with Employers in the Memphis, Tennessee Metro Area.

Whether you are seeking a CEO or to build an entire Entertainment and Sports team virtually overnight, Reaction Search Memphis Entertainment and Sports executive recruiters is the answer; we connect time-strapped employers with talented Entertainment and Sports candidates.

Our highly trained international recruiters have real-world Entertainment and Sports experience and insight, making them the best suited for conducting financial executive recruiting to enhance the staffing infrastructure in both private and public organizations.

As a nationwide Entertainment and Sports executive search firm with an expansive network of professional Entertainment and Sports executive recruiters located in most major cities across the nation, Reaction Search and its Entertainment and Sports recruiters Memphis are dedicated to identifying, evaluating, recruiting, and delivering the highest-caliber Entertainment and Sports professionals by utilizing an established process in matching and delivering high-caliber Entertainment and Sports candidates, who are prepared to begin contributing to your company immediately, with positions that fit their unique skill set.

One of the many dimensions that make our Entertainment and Sports recruiters truly unique is the fact that they are Entertainment and Sports executive recruitment. Our Memphis Entertainment and Sports executive placement firm has people who have actually worked in the positions for which they now recruit talent. With this unique insight and perspective, they are better equipped to deliver search results that continue to uphold and ensure our firm’s consistently high retention rates within the Memphis Entertainment and Sports Executive Recruiting Agency.

Because our Memphis headhunters are familiar with the key Memphis Entertainment and Sports players and the “ins and outs” of the Memphis Entertainment and Sports field, they know the questions to ask, and are able to quickly and effectively assess candidate competency. These insights amongst other dimensions enable our Memphis Entertainment and Sports recruiters to consistently recruit premium Entertainment and Sports candidates These are just a few of many ways in which our Memphis Entertainment and Sports search recruitment team distinguish themselves from executive recruiters who are just trying to hastily fulfill an executive job search.

From start-up to Fortune 500 companies, our extensive Memphis Entertainment and Sports industry knowledge base and proven track record of accomplishments enables our firm, RSI, to expeditiously and thoroughly tailor and fulfill each Memphis Entertainment and Sports Executive Recruiting. Simply, we provide outstanding service and bottom line results by servicing a comprehensive range of disciplines.

Memphis, Tennessee Executive Search Recruiters
Over the years, Memphis’ location along the Mississippi River and in the middle of the United States has been the main reason for its success in the transportation industry. Today, Memphis can reach more major metro areas with overnight deliveries than any other city in the central US. Like many major Midwest cities, Memphis’ economy shifted from agriculture, to manufacturing and distribution, to a more diversified manufacturing/distribution and services economy. Today, major Memphis industries include: transportation, financial services, food processing, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices. Below is a list of some of the major companies headquartered in Memphis.

Fortune 500 Companies
This is a list of the 2012 Fortune 500 Companies in the Memphis metropolitan area. All three of these companies are located in Memphis. The city’s largest company, FedEx, is also the area’s largest employer.

Fortune 500 Co., Memphis Metro Area

FedEx (70)

International Paper (111)

AutoZone (320)

Additional Notable Companies in Memphis are:

First Horizon

Auto Zone

Fred’s Stores

Perkin’s and Marie Calendar’s

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Memphis, Tennessee Executive Search City Snapshot:
Welcome to Memphis, Tennessee, the “River City.” By population, Memphis is the largest city in Tennessee and the 20th largest in the United States. Memphis sits along the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, near the borders of Mississippi and Arkansas. Memphis is known for its barbeque food, its transportation industry, and Beale Street- the birthplace of blues. Furthermore, Memphis is home to Graceland, the birthplace and residence of famed Rock and Roll artist Elvis Presley. Over the years, Memphis has produced many other musicians and well-known individuals, such as: Kathy Bates, Judge Joe Brown, Shannen Doherty, Arethra Franklin, Morgan Freeman, Al Green, Isaac Hayes, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, Booker T. Jones, George “Machine Gun” Kelly, BB King, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tim McCarver, Memphis Slim, Chris Parnell, Project Pat, Otis Redding, Cybill Shepherd, Fred D. Thompson, Justin Timberlake, Drumma Boy, Ike Turner, Anita ward, Maurice White, and Tennessee Williams.

Evidence of settlement in present day Memphis dates back over 10,000 years. The Mississippian Culture left religious and residential mounds throughout the Mississippi River Valley and the Tennessee River Valley. When Hernando de Soto first explored the Mississippi area in 1540, he encountered the native Chickasaw tribe. Over a century later, in the 1680s, French explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle set up Fort Prudhomme, the first European settlement in present day Memphis. Throughout the 1700s, West Tennessee remained mostly unorganized as it was stilled owned by the Chickasaw tribe.

In 1818 the federal government purchased West Tennessee from the Chickasaw for $300,000, via the Jackson Purchase. A year later, investors John Overton, James Winchester, and future president Andrew Jackson set up a city in West Tennessee along the bank of the Mississippi River. They named the city “Memphis” after the ancient Egyptian Capital on the Nile River. During the first half of the 1800s, Memphis was a major slave market. The city was built on the manufacturing and distribution of cotton and other slave-produced products from southern plantations to northern textile factories. Tennessee seceded from the Union in 1861 but Memphis fell back under Union control after the Battle of Memphis in 1862. For the rest of the Civil War, Memphis avoided the fate of many southern cities and prospered as a Union supply base.

In the 1870s yellow fever hit Memphis. In 1878, 75% of Memphis’ population either died or left town. Memphis lost its city charter and was not re-chartered until 1893. In 1910 EH “Boss” Crump was elected mayor. Crump ran the political machine in Memphis for the next 30 years, effectively appointing all the mayors who succeeded him. Over this time Memphis built an extensive network of parks and public works. It also revamped its sanitation and drainage system to avoid another epidemic. Memphis soon grew into the world’s largest spot cotton, hardwood lumber, and mule market.

In 1962 St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital opened in Memphis. St. Jude is one of the world’s leading cancer research centers, specializing in treating diseases affecting children, such as: cancer, leukemia, AIDS, sickle-cell anemia, and other immune disorders. In 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at Memphis’ Lorraine Motel, the day after his I’ve Been to the Mountaintop speech at Memphis’ Mason Temple.

In the second half of the 20th century, Memphis became known for its music scene. In 1952 Sam Philips founded the Sun Records label. Sun Records helped produce such famous musicians as: Memphis native Elvis “the King” Presley, BB “the King of Blues” King, Johnny “the Man in Black” Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Roy Orbison. Other musical greats to come out of Memphis include: Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Howlin’ Wolf, Otis Redding, Booker T. & the MG’s, the Bar-Kays, Isaac Hayes, William Bell, Al Green, WC Handy, the Sylvers, Justin Timberlake, Three 6 Mafia, and may more.

According to 2010 Census data, 646,889 people live in Memphis and 1.3 million people live in the Memphis Metropolitan Statistical Area. Memphis is 324 square miles in land area, making the population density around 2,000 people per square mile. This is low compared to other major US cities. There are approximately 250,000 housing units in Memphis. The average household size is 2.5 people and 61% of Memphis households contain families. In Tennessee the average household is 2.5 people as well, but about 70% of households contain families.

Memphis is one of the largest majority-Black cities in the US. In 2010, 63.1% of Memphis’ population identified as Black, 27.5% identified as White, 6.5% as Hispanic, 1.6% as Asian, 1.1% as biracial, and 0.32% as some other race. Memphis is also highly segregated by race. Many White Memphians live further from the city’s epicenter, while many Black Memphians reside downtown or in areas with low housing prices and high crime rates. Also, in 2010 4% of Memphis’ population was foreign-born with 1.8% coming from Latin America, 1.4% coming from Asia, and 0.4% coming from Europe. This rate is low, but still higher than the Tennessee average (2.8%).

REDUCE HIRING RISK IN MEMPHIS, TN
Hiring the wrong person can be a costly mistake. Being one of the nation’s leading executive search firms, Reaction Search can minimize the risks associated with recruiting a new employee. Our recruiting experts conduct in-depth candidate reviews to evaluate the competency and quality of each candidate we recommend to our clients. We conduct extensive background and reference checks. When we send you a candidate, we do so with the utmost confidence that the candidate meets your criteria, and would be an asset to your organization.